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Friday, February 15, 2013

Defining a 2nd cousin twice removed.
The parents A - B of the brother & sister this can be termed as a 0 degree of relationship

A brother & sister each get married and have children this can be termed as a 1st degree of relationship

Those children are 1st cousins [grand children of A - B ] to each other. this can be termed as a 2nd degree of relationship

When that brother & sister have grand children through the marriage of their own children

The children in this generations are 2nd cousins [ great grand children of A - B ] to each other. this can be termed as a 3rd degree of relationship
When the brother & sister have great grand children, then those children are 3rd cousins [ great great grand children of A - B ] this can be termed as a 4th degree of relationship

Each generation forward becomes 4th, [ great great great grand children of A - B ] 5, [ great great great great grand children of A - B ] 6th cousins or 5th, 6th or 7th degree of relationship

The children who are straight 2nd cousins [ great grand children of A - B ] would be a 2nd cousin once removed to the a 3rd cousin or a 1st cousin

The children who are straight 2nd cousins [ great grand children of A - B ] would be a 2nd cousin once removed to the a 4th cousin

The cousin once, twice, third or fourth removed in on a diagonal line between the 2nd cousin and the descendant from a common ancestor, in this case A - B who is in an extra generation and usually younger than the age of the individual, the 2nd cousin.

Here is additional information on this category of calculating cousins, chart credit below is from this Calculating Cousins site giving you a visual overview, check out http://bit.ly/14Xia7d

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About Me Alex Fraser

ALEX W FRASER, or Alex Fraser born County of Glengarry, whose U E L ancestors settled in 1784, attended school, Lancaster, Williamstown, worked for Bell Canada, 1967 got ill at school in Ottawa, Ont. During convalescence 1971, he interested himself in the ancestry of his mother, father, pursued this quest by searching local records, cemeteries, he copied headstone inscriptions leading to the publication of Gravestones of Glengarry V 1 1976, V 2 1978.,V 3 1988, V 4 2008.V5 Kirk Hill, V6 Breadalbane, V7 Lochiel, V8 Glen Nevis 2011, published over 28,000 pages of material on the Glengarry Stormont County Ontario Area.
1992 he received the Canada 125th Anniversary medal, 1997 “The Morley K Thomas Award “ for 30 years of weather observing.
1998 Alex joined NATO/Bitron, started using the excellent product to reduce fuel, maintenance costs, 2006 under Bitron reached the Director, Founder, Presidential level in Bitron, averaging with his 1997 GMC 1/2 truck these 10+ years basically every 3rd tank of gas Free.
Rhoda Ross is a great assistance in collecting, sorting, publishing these works. The MacNaughton’s of Glengarry County Ontario area is her creation in this 4 volume work.